“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.”
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Hippocrates
4 quotes“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
Socrates
4 quotes“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”
Robert M. Pirsig
3 quotes“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
Immanuel Kant
3 quotes“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
Jorge Luis Borges
3 quotes“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2 quotes“It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.”
Khalil Gibran
2 quotes“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
Will Durant
2 quotes“All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.”
Plutarch
2 quotes“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.”
Leonardo da Vinci
2 quotes“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
Dalai Lama
2 quotes“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Simone Weil
2 quotes“Pain is the root of knowledge.”